A couple weeks ago I went to see my daughter's junior roller derby bout at Oaks Park. I bought some raffle tickets to support... well, not sure what it was supporting, but it must have been the grown-up roller derby and not the kids because the prize was a bag of Pabst swag: the T-shirt, socks, and mittens (!) in the picture, along with some other junk like koozies and stickers. Oh yeah, and a tube of New Belgium lip balm. Classy.The next weekend when the Beermongers held their charity glassware swap, I bought a raffle ticket, hoping to win the magnum of Stone Sublimely Self-Righteous CDA. Didn't win that, but I did win the pretty pink bottle of Rogue Voodoo Doughnut Bacon Maple beer. I had been wanting to try that, but I was unwilling to spring the $13 or $14 bucks it's going for. So it was nice to win.
I was on such a streak that I could hardly believe it when I didn't win any of the old Celebrations in the raffle at Woodstock Wine and Deli's Celebration vertical last weekend. Oh well. I did win some money at poker later that evening, so maybe I'll find a way to win something this weekend and keep the streak alive.
Speaking of roller derby, isn't it a shame that such a Portlandish activity is owned by Pabst and New Belgium instead of a hometown brewery? Those were the only beers for sale at the Oaks Park Derby Barn -- at least the tasty Ranger IPA was one of the choices -- maybe because they're in cans, but surely a keg of something local could be brought in.
My raffle ticket earned me a 24oz bottle of 2009 Celebration at Woodstock. It was quite tasty (probably my favorite of the bunch in the vertical tasting).
ReplyDeleteI keep my hopes up that eventually the Rose City Rollers will have a local beer sponsor. Just this year, Minnesota beer heavyweight Surly became a sponsor of the MNRollerGirls after year of PBR.
ReplyDeleteKris: I put that bug in Brady's ear a few weeks ago, now that he's a marketing guy for Widmer. I do think it has to do with cans; they don't want to deal with bottles or taps.
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